Before you tell me how you regularly use yours, I am saying you’re a minority, not that you don’t exist
Every desk in my work office is a standing desk. A handful of people use them, the rest don’t. And personally I believe that’s enough to justify buying them all.
So even if youre right that a majority are unused, I disagree with the implication that they are a waste.
The facilities team at our office would previously build a C-shaped box out of MDF or plywood to sit a regular, fixed-height desk on top of.
To be fair they did a nice job, they were sturdy and would have recesses for the desk’s legs to sit in to prevent sideways movement. But the problem then became “what about when those people wanted to sit”, so tall office chairs - that didn’t match the rest of the chairs in the office - had to be bought, undoubtedly at considerable expense.
The new, all-standing-desks use-it-if-you-want-or-don’t-it-doesn’t-matter-to-us regime seems to just avoid a lot of unnecessary shifting of furniture.
That’s like any other accessibility feature honestly. If it helps a good amount of the population and doesn’t hurt anyone else, then it’s a net positive. It saves the company in workers comp complaints overall I’d imagine.
I use mine with utmost regularity: once every 6 months
I forgot mine can stand. Oops
I have a daily alarm to remind myself setting it at standing position at least once a day. Sometimes when I am busy I ignore the alarm and forget.
Thanks for your reminder, I have it in the standing position now. Usually keep standing for around 30 minutes until I get tired.
Lunch is usually my alarm. After lunch I raise the desk
Same, I really try to raise mine up at least once a day, but it doesn’t always happen. Your alarm idea is a good one, think I’ll try that.
Dozens of us use our standing desks! I know two people in my office that use them daily, and one who uses his frequently.
They are still great for cable management
I have one at home but I don’t stand at it much, just for a few minutes here and there. But it’s still useful that it moves. Its good to have it at the exact right height and raising it makes moving cables easier. I plugged in a new USB dock on my static desk at work the other day. It was a pain in the arse, the hole of which I almost exposed to the whole office when I got up off the floor.
Yup, I’m here to agree. Got one at home and work, only used it about twice in a day for all of 5 minutes
Start with it standing in the morning. Lower it when you feel like it. Then after lunch start standing again, lower over time.
Now that’s a great routine, will try it!
I set an alarm that goes off after a couple hours on my work computer, it’s been working for me
My biggest use for my standing desk is to set the precise perfect height.
I have been using standing desks since 2010.
Originally not by choice, because the only spot in the office that didn’t smell like farts was the high tops near the kitchen. The chairs weren’t very good and I was used to standing long hours anyways when I was a server.
I’m still using standing desks. And i love seeing standing desks everywhere.
I switch position more now that I’m at home. I’ll more likely stand when I’m tired, as they taught us in the army.
Who doesn’t use them ? the only user of a standing desk that I know besides me (got it two years ago now) was a coworker, a programmer who used it on the daily. I don’t see why you wouldn’t use it, it’s so much better in practice. Perhaps you need to have experienced long hours at the desk in an intensive IT role before you jump. That’s certainly what drew me to get one
Because sitting takes less energy, standing muscles are underdeveloped, and constant back pain is just the 8th natural wonder
It’s true. When I get lumbar pain, I shiver thinking of the lush hanging gardens of Babylon. When my tailbone gets crushed by hours upon hours of sitting, I remember the might of the Temple of Diana and think myself lucky to even sit next to her -figuratively.
I have a standing desk. I use it all the time. Reading about all these people who just sit down while they work on stuff feels weird, like, how do you get anything done? I don’t even have a chair, it would be pointless. If I want to sit, I just go to the couch.
This is a spot on showerthought!
My joint has a standing desk, but it is positioned so my back is to my door and it is under the glaring over head lights.
So I set up on a desk that allows me to see my door and to offer some cover from the overhead lights.
I might be in the minority but I love my standing desks. I’ll sit once in awhile but I’d guess that 90% of my day is standing.
And to those who think standing is just being in one position all day and therefore is just as bad as sitting, I completely disagree. In practice I’m constantly shifting around, moving one leg back or forward, or walking in circles when I’m talking during a meeting and don’t need to look at my screens. Sometimes I’ll bring a chair over and put one knee on the seat for a few minutes to stretch my quads and hip flexors. It also helps if you get a soft pad to stand on or shoes designed for being on your feet all day.
My desks even go really low, which I squat at for about an hour a day. Full heels on the ground squat, keyboard and screens low enough to work without cranking my neck.
I’ve been working behind a desk for 25 years, and next to a true ergonomic keyboard I think my standing desks have done the most to keep my body from breaking down.
Some standing desks have an interface that can be used to setup diverse automations. For I example I made it automatically rise when it detects that it was on seating position for more than 40 minutes.
fancy!! mine is adjustable by hand crank. (And yet I alternate b/w sitting and standing setup more frequently than my colleague whose desk is electrically powered).
When I was considering buying one I researched the health benefits and from what I could tell - there are none. Most studies/researchers seem to agree that sedentism is bad, either standing or sitting. Some ppl on zoom (back when I worked for a company) would have walking desks, probably better.
The health benefits come from movement and posture variation, instead of just keeping the standing position.
Walking desks would be ideal (for health), but that take up too much space and I think walking distracts my work.
It’s changing position that’s beneficial.
